Correspondence, fan mail, speeches and writings, public relations material, subject files, scrapbooks, and printed material relating to Von Braun's career in rocketry and aerospace engineering from his early work on the V-2 rocket in Germany to his service at the U.S. Dept. of Defense, the Redstone Arsenal, and the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Includes material pertaining to guided missiles, rocketry, and space exploration in general; papers relating to the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs; and material reflecting Von Braun's associations with the American Rocket Society and Gesellschaft für Weltraumsforschung, and General Dynamics, General Motors, IBM, Lockheed, Sperry-Rand, and other corporations involved in aerospace work.

Correspondents include Otto Wolfgang Bechtle, Wilber Marion Brucker, Frederick C. Durant, Heinz Gartmann, Juppe Gerhards, Aristid von Grosse, Heinz Hermann Kölle, Willy Ley, G. Loeser, John B. Medaris, Cornelius Ryan, Igor Ivan Sikorsky, John Sparkman, Ernst Stublinger, Robert Collins Truax, Armitage Watkins, and Fred Lawrence Whipple.